I wrote about how in Brazil, scientists have found that #wildboars are spreading antibiotic-resistant bacteria — and since Brazilians began farming them for meat, this is a concern. (For @sciencealert.com.web.brid.gy ) #brazil www.sciencealert.com/wild-boars-i...

Wild Boars in Brazil Are Spreading Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, Scientists Warn

If it feels like there are wild boars everywhere now, you're not imagining things.

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As someone who has a horrible sense of direction (in human-created environments, I'm fine in the woods), I owe this woman my LIFE. I used to get SO lost driving around new places! Thanks Dr. West!!!

@billkittle.bsky.social · 2d ago

What's interesting is observing my first responses to things lately. In this case it was: "I grabbed my neighbor's full-strength electric fence with my bare hands when I was 6 looking at their horsey. Your dumb gloves ain't nothing. SCOFF" Which, I do realize, is a bit unhinged.

Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 3d ago

@apnews.com, @rjfoley.bsky.social: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

There's so many horrific and enraging images going around my feed today but THIS happened too and just seeing a room full of women making laws made my heart joyful for a moment.

Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · 4d ago

Surrounded by women, lawmakers, and advocate champions, Gov. Maura Healey signed landmark legislation ensuring full abortion access in MA. Women have the fundamental right to choose for their own bodies. Healthcare is a human right, period!

Extreme nerdism, I def want to know more!!

Mara Gay@maragay.bsky.social · 4d ago

Mamdani now wants to use thermal energy to cool and heat subway stations and city buildings. This would apparently involve capturing heat in “boreholes” 500-600 feet underground and installing a system of circulating pumps. Very nerdy. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-eye...

I'm so beyond infuriated that MY MONEY is being used this way. Funding the national parks was one of the few reasons I felt OK to pay taxes and I know many people feel the same.

River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️@rivertalesien.northsky.social · 4d ago

A group of grifters who see the American tax dollar as their own private treasury.

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Douwe van Hinsbergen@vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just in case y’all needed a thrust fault 😘

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Wachowski sisters didn't use 120 cameras to film one shot just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Hell of a thread, I didn't know much about coca labs. All I can think of is the amphibians and birds that eat them in the ecosystems where they make this stuff and how it's yet another blow by human beings to their lives.

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is a catastrophic return to the bloody and counterproductive policies of the Uribe administration from two decades ago. They even want to bring back the futile policy of aerial spraying of coca crops with a super concentrated version of Roundup. I worked for 15 years to help end that practice.

YIKES. This is really, really bad. The media landscape gets worse and worse!

Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · last wk.

This is one of the most catastrophic developments imaginable for US media and the country. I don’t even have the words for it.

My newest for @sciencealert.com.web.brid.gy about #nakedmolerats and #pheremones - which the adorably weird rodents use to manage their reproduction. www.sciencealert.com/the-naked-mo... #sciencejournalism #AnimalFacts

There's some kind of irony that a man so full of shit did this.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s Wednesday so it’s time for @defendpublichealth.bsky.social’s Whopper of the Week! This time the team takes on the truth about RFK Jr.‘s cuts to public health and how this made the Cyclospora outbreak worse.

How beautiful the universe is. About halfway through this video I became mesmerized. Even the small whirlpools on the sun are gorgeous. (And what an incredible privilege to be able to see them.)

Lee Billings@leebillings.bsky.social · last wk.

This video is embedded in the story but is worth calling out on its own, as it nicely conveys just how ridiculously small these whirlpools are (compared to the size of the sun) and how closely they align with validating numerical simulations. So cool! youtu.be/g9E2-sSHYjw

This century-old tradition dates back to the 1850s when a bishop's daughter first trained the birds to pull a hanging rope for lunch. IG: @maddy.lee.98 Bishop's Palace in Wells, Somerset, England

Journalism humor right here. Hilarious!!

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last wk.

automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot

I started fencing in my 30s and at my first tournament my first direct elimination match was against a 12 year old girl in a Hello Kitty mask. She beat me 15-3. Mixed age and gender sports does wonders for one's sense of humility...

HOLY shit I didn't know this. I was recently talking about research on these animals with a scientist for one of my pieces on ovarian longevity.

Mongabay@mongabay.com · 2w ago

Despite a 50% population drop and an endangered IUCN status, the U.S. has twice declined to protect long-tailed macaques under the Endangered Species Act. As the world's largest importer, the U.S. brings in 30,000+ of these monkeys annually for biomedical research. Bobby Bascomb reports.

This was a fun short piece to put together; we've long known that some Aussie dolphins are spongers (using sponges to forage for hidey-fish), but now it seems that this behavior is actually CHANGING THEIR EPIGENETICS. So fascinating.

Jérôme OLLIER@jeromeollier.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sponge Foraging in Dolphins Does Something Unique to Their Genes - @starrevartan.bsky.social @sciencealert.com.web.brid.gy www.sciencealert.com/some-dolphin...

I've only had one car crash in 33 years (thus far, I drive a LOT when I have a car, though I'm currently car-free). I careened off the side of a mountain, rolled down the side, and landed on my passenger side in a frozen river in Colorado. Brand-new Xterra. I was fine due to seatbelt BUT 1/3

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

He’s a roadkill enthusiast not a scientist

When I got my first covid shot they thanked me for coming.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · last yr.

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

This is SUCH an incredible story from Felicity! A bit of a medical mystery that nobody wanted to publish (you can guess why) but the BMJ took on.

Felicity Nelson@frogsandstars.bsky.social · 3w ago

After 5 months of investigation, and more than 20 rejections from various science news outlets, my investigation into China's detention of surgeon Qingping Xie, the inventor of Alzheimer's disease surgery, made the front page of The BMJ today: www.bmj.com/content/394/...

Really great wrap-up covering why the right-wing started with trans sports bans is part of a larger plan to defund and hurt women's sports (and further control over women's bodies). defector.com/is-the-right...

Is The Right's Next Project Make Women's Sports Girly Again? | Defector

Within a few weeks of the country’s highest court giving states permission to ban trans girls from nearly all school sports, the influential right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation made clear it...

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There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.

@carmenlynn.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Koch Nazis are back “A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college professors and administrators — and it's working.”

Turns out the TV DOES rot your brain, but ONLY if you're a man! -Fascinatingly, women did not experience the same negative cognitive effects from TV-watching. -The researchers barely mentioned this. -UH, SEEMS LIKE AN IMPORTANT POINT!!!! I wrote abt it: www.sciencealert.com/watching-too...

Bad News For Bingers: Watching Too Much TV Linked to Smaller Brain Volume

If you click on the TV and hear a voice from your childhood saying, "That idiot box is going to rot your brain!" – you're not alone.

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I've gained a LOT of new followers on a couple other platforms recently (and not too shabby over here either), so I made a little re-intro video here for those who don't know who the heck I am or what I do! (PS. I also do ceramics and ecstatic dance & I'm a dual US and Australian citizen.) #author

I started dancing and doing ceramics in my 40s, and as I finish up the decade, I'd say those were two of my best decisions—in a decade filled with GREAT personal life decisions! (got rid of house and car, pursued my career dreams, got more sunshine/outdoor time, being others.)

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 2w ago

New martial arts side quest: I’m a few weeks away from turning 40 — and I’ve decided to start wushu and tai chi! (Side note, my teacher is in his 60s!)